Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.